Mangaluru woman arrested for impersonating IGP Roopa

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March 11, 2019

Mangaluru, Mar 11: A middle aged woman from this coastal city who had allegedly impersonated inspector general of police (home guards) D Roopa and directed a cop to book a hotel room in her name a few months ago, was arrested by Bengaluru police and later released.

The accused has been identified as Asha Prakash (45), a resident of a private apartment complex in Pandeshwara, Mangaluru. She had worked with the postal department before taking voluntary retirement last year.

In December 2018, a woman had called a senior police officer in Lucknow saying, "I'm IPS officer Roopa calling. Please book a hotel room between December 29 and January 3."

The officer, after doing the needful, had called Roopa saying the room had been booked. Following this, Roopa had filed the complaint with Banashankari police.

Tracing the mobile number from which the call was made, police tracked down Asha Prakash. However, she pleaded innocence, saying her mobile was lost a month ago. "I lost my cellphone and have lodged a complaint with Pandeshwara police," she told police.

Asha also produced a copy of the acknowledgement given by police after filing the complaint.

"Asha had taken a duplicate sim card. But investigation revealed that the IME number of the device from which the accused had called and the one used by Asha was the same. After we told her about the IME number, she confessed to the crime, but did not reveal the motive. Since it was a non-heinous crime, she was released on bail immediately," said police.

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Migrants block national highway near BIEC in Bengaluru, demanding to be sent to their native states

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: Migrant workers blocked national highway near Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in Bengaluru on Monday, demanding to be sent back to their home states.

Revenue Minister R Ashok and CM's Political Secretary Vishwanath visited the spot and sent all migrant workers to BIEC center.

The protest caused more traffic and Peenya Police Inspector also suffered minor injuries while sending the migrants. Most of the migrants hail from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

As per the information from, some migrant workers tried to throw stones at the police while they tried to evacuate them from the road to the BIEC center.

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6,000 chickens buried alive in Belagavi as prices drop

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March 10,2020

Belagavi, Mar 10: Around 6,000 chickens were buried alive by some poultry farm owners here as the rate of flesh in the market dropped even below the cost price due to Coronavirus scare.

The poultry farm who buried the chickens on Monday evening belonged to Lolasuru village in Gokak Taluk of the district.

One of the owners, Nazir Makandar, said that there was no demand for chicken because of threat of Coronavirus.

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we are ready to destroy food but wont allow poor to eat it

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People who went near coronavirus-hit Bengaluru techie under watch

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March 3,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 3: Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu has said that a medical team is monitoring the health condition of all those people who had stayed with the coronavirus-hit techie who is admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad.

The first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Telangana was reported from Hyderabad on Monday where a man from Bengaluru, who recently returned from Dubai, tested positive for the virus.

"It has come to our knowledge that the coronavirus-hit person in Hyderabad had gone from Bengaluru. Therefore, all the members in the house where he had stayed here have been identified and are under watch," Mr Sriramulu tweeted on late Monday night.

The minister said he has convened a meeting with the additional chief secretary, commissioner and other senior officials of the health department today.

"Our government has initiated all the measures to prevent the spread of this virus," the minister said.

It is learnt that the 24-year-old techie had not contracted it when he was in Bengaluru but all precautionary measures have been taken.

The software engineer, who works in Bengaluru, had worked with people from Hong Kong in Dubai last month where he is suspected to have contracted the virus, Telangana health minister E Rajender told reporters in Hyderabad.

The man reached Bengaluru on February 19/20 and later went to Hyderabad in a bus.

He took treatment for fever after coming to Hyderabad and was admitted to a private super speciality hospital in the city. As it did not subside, he came to the state-run Gandhi hospital on Sunday evening, Mr Rajender said.

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